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Rax80 gets low bandwidth behind ATT BG210
Good Afternoon, I have a perplexing low bandwidth on wifi issue that doesn't seem to be solved by putting the ATT router in ip passthrough mode. I discovered I get the max download of 600 mbps bu...
Thanks again! I still would've thought that putting the ATT router in passhthrough for rax80 to get direct public IP and not have to route from 10.x network to 19.168 gateway and then NAT out to public would help but it doesn't. AP mode on the rax80 works great but I lose the few useful features thast it has.
FURRYe38 wrote:What WiFi devices are you speed testing with?
Mac laptop and samsung phone since they have capability to test well as long as I'm close enough to router for 5ghz .
How do you have the wifi settings configured on the router?
Enabled:
AXOFDMA in 2.4 and 5ghz
Smart Connect
2.4ghz
enable 20/40 mhz co-existence
channel auto
mode up to 1200 Mbps
transmit 100%
5ghz
mode up to 4800 Mbps
transmit 100%
mysterioustrngr wrote:
5ghz
mode up to 4800 Mbps
transmit 100%
You may want to try and drop the mode on the 5GHz broadcast down to "up to 2400 Mbps (instead of 4800 Mbps)".
Many devices do not handle the 160MHz wide channels very well and the WiFi speeds chokes. But they will handle 80Mhz wide channels and provide the expected speeds.
That's a good point, TC_in_Montana . I tried that previously , dropping 5ghz to 2400 and as low as 600 but with no effect.
It doesn't relate to this issue or your advice but as a side story, that was a test when I complained to netgear about other issues I had before when I still had support. The tech had me disable AX, and dropped the mode to as low as it could go and disable smart connect, and choose a specific channel . I think it helped but it basically defeated the entire purpose of buying the router to begin with so it wasn't a solution that I accepted. He was saying it was related to how not all devices support AX mode. In this case disabling AX mode and those other tests makes bandwidth much lower.
TC_in_Montana wrote:mysterioustrngr wrote:
5ghz
mode up to 4800 Mbps
transmit 100%
You may want to try and drop the mode on the 5GHz broadcast down to "up to 2400 Mbps (instead of 4800 Mbps)".
Many devices do not handle the 160MHz wide channels very well and the WiFi speeds chokes. But they will handle 80Mhz wide channels and provide the expected speeds.